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...author painstakingly details how their partnership, which started as one in which family values and a desire to make a contribution were shared, came unglued as she stayed at home to raise their children and he focused more on politics. She left her high-powered banking job in New York City and moved to South Carolina for him - willingly, she says. She ran four successful campaigns for him, more or less willingly, for no pay. She spent six years raising their four kids pretty much alone while he was in Washington. At nine-plus months pregnant, she hosted a luncheon...
...upgrade the Kindle to stay competitive. "My guess is that Jeff [Bezos] is going to have to come out with a color version darn fast - probably faster than he wanted to - because the iPad is going to take market share away," he says. On Feb. 4 the New York Times reported that Amazon had purchased Touchco, a start-up company specializing in touchscreen technology...
Neagheen Homaifar ’10, who attended the event—co-sponsored by the Harvard Club of New York Foundation, HAA, and OCS—acknowledged that recruiting can be a stressful process...
...Carly Fiorina Is an Internet Genius," declared New York magazine. "The Most Bizarre Ad in Recent Memory," blared the Huffington Post. "Demon Sheep Goes Viral," announced the Washington Post on a front-page Web headline. The tag #demonsheep quickly spiked near the top of Twitter's trending topics, and Rachel Maddow played the spot on her MSNBC show, calling it "so bad, no one wanted to believe it was real." Not wanting to be left out of the controversy, the third Republican candidate in the race to unseat Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, Chuck DeVore, responded by launching a website - Demonsheep.org...
However, it is not the plot that one would expect to drive this performance. Any suspense about the internal play's success is muted by the performance's very existence. Once the premise is established—here are four friends sitting on four chairs in a New York City apartment trying to achieve their dream—the expectations are set for a show that has cloyingly put a keyboardist, Larry (Will McGarrahan), in the corner of the apartment space to acknowledge as its self-awareness sees...